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B1G Wrestling Championship: Predicting winners for each weight class

By Chris Snyder

STATE COLLEGE, PA - FEBRUARY 5: A view of the crowd in the arena during a match between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Ohio State Buckeyes on February 5, 2016 at Recreation Hall on the campus of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Penn State won 24-14. (Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images)
STATE COLLEGE, PA - FEBRUARY 5: A view of the crowd in the arena during a match between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Ohio State Buckeyes on February 5, 2016 at Recreation Hall on the campus of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Penn State won 24-14. (Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images) /
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Iowa’s Alex Marinelli celebrates his win against Oklahoma State’s Travis Wittlake at 165 pounds during the Hawkeye’s last home dual of the season, on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, in Carver Hawkeye Arena.0223 Iowawr 016 Cr2
Iowa’s Alex Marinelli celebrates his win against Oklahoma State’s Travis Wittlake at 165 pounds during the Hawkeye’s last home dual of the season, on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, in Carver Hawkeye Arena.0223 Iowawr 016 Cr2 /

165

165 B1G Pre-Seeds
1. Alex Marinelli, Iowa
2. Dan Braunagel, Illinois
3. Ethan Smith, Ohio State
4. Cameron Amine, Michigan
5. Andrew Sparks, Minnesota
6. Joe Lee, Penn State
7. Peyton Robb, Nebraska
8. Jake Tucker, Michigan State
9. Nick South, Indiana
10. Gerrit Nijenhuis, Purdue
11. Jonathan Spadafora, Maryland
12. David Ferrante, Northwestern
13. Brett Donner, Rutgers
14. Josh Otto, Wisconsin

I have to admit, I’m a little hesitant about this one.

The only reason is due to the fact Marinelli hasn’t been on the mat since January 22nd in a dual meet against Minnesota. For those of you like me who needed to run a SQL query to pull the number of days between these dates. It’s 43 days.

You’re welcome.

It’s probably easy to figure out what happened to Marinelli as Iowa had to cancel each of its last 3 dual meets of the B1G regular season.

Assuming he’s at 100% (which I hope he is), there’s still no reason to think he won’t take home his 3rd straight B1G title (2018-2019). The B1G has a handful of solid wrestlers at 165 but none of them are in the same class as Alex.

Now we’re onto the “iffy” part of the journey as I’m pretty confident in my picks, but not entirely convinced.

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